Week 5

Today I am at the Catholic mission instead of the other place.  Too many Nassaras at the other one.  The past two weeks have been really good.  I made a pepèniere, or a small tree nursery. Hopefully my acacia senegal trees will grow, but I am not that confident.  I think the dirt has too much clay in it.  Last Friday we went on a field trip to Bamé where another volunteer lives.  One of us will live there.  I really liked the village and her house made me excited about my own place.  It looked like a home.  This Thursday we find out our sites and next week we will go visit for the week.  I am anxious to know where I will be, but it’s a little strange to think that I will be there for so long.  Yesterday, we went to the APCD’s farm and were able to see the effects erosion had on his land.  Afterwards we got to go hiking.  The view was excellent and it was really nice to do something active instead of sitting in class all day.  Today, unlike normal we didn’t have school, but this afternoon I have another language placement interview.  I probably won’t make it to intermediate high which is where I am supposed to be before training is over, but we still have about 5 or 6 more weeks to get there.

I was going to try and put pictures up but I have heard people say you can get a virus from using your key in a cyber café, so I am going to wait until I can use the one at the office.  I know there is probably a lot I am forgetting, but its difficult to remember everything in the time I am here.  Oh the weather.  It has stopped raining and so the humidity is already much better.  It’s still hot during the day, but the mornings are fairly cool.  Yesterday morning my little brother and sister were huddled around the fire and they kept saying, il fait froid!  Their “cold” was probably 70 or 75 degrees.  Welcome to Africa.